andy warhol?

Question

how did andy warhol make his paintings so clean of brush strokes. ive looked over a lot of his portraits and it looks like he used a computer, is that true?

Answer 1

Although he did paint some original oil paintings earlier in his career the art that Andrew Warhola (Andy Wahol) became famous for and probably the ones that you've studied were silkscreen prints. There are no brush strokes on a silkscreened canvas.

As to you wondering if Warhol could have used a computer all those silkscreens were created long before personal computers were on the public market or creative artists software (like Photoshop) were even invented and developed.

Answer 2

Andy Warhol differed from his contemporaries because he was already familiar with the process of printing and reproduction. He even ran a small factory at the height of demand for his works.

While silkscreening was his specialty, some of his work was also reserved for the paper standard of offset duplication. What distinguished him as an artist was the fact that he prepared his work for the process, rather than do the paintings and let some other discipline worry about the reproduction details. That is what accounts for the experimental, commercial and pop art appeal of his best works. No computers were involved. He died in Feb 1987, which means that the height of computer graphics and reprographics had yet to emerge in his lifetime. He was simply a reprographer with a flair for graphic experimentation, and that made his ideas marketable, because he revolutionized the world of commercial graphics, and made them into an art worthy of intellectual consideration.

Answer 3

Most of Andy Warhol's paintings are silkscreened. That's why there are the same paintings in ten different colors. He would reproduce them in all sorts of colors.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I believe he used a printing process (lithography) and photography.
And silk screening.

Answer 6

silk screening.

Answer 7

silkscreen.